From February 1986, American television series occupied the entire daytime schedule and the second part of the evening. Some of these series are not unknown to viewers, as they were already broadcast on other French channels in the 1960s and 1970s: Arnold and Willy, Happy Days, Mission impossible, The Fifth Dimension, Star Trek, Sheriff, scare me or Wonder Woman. The Italian tycoon does not hesitate to translate many American television series still unknown to the French public in order to seduce the most passionate. Just before the 8:30 p.m. film, the strategic slot at 7:30 p.m. is occupied every day of the week by the program À fond la caisse in which a new series is broadcast each time aimed at a young audience: Supercopter on Monday, K2000 on Tuesday, Riptide on Wednesday, CHiPs on Thursday and Mechanical Thunder on Friday.
Programming blocks / youth channels
Time slots or brands broadcasting multiple programs.
TF! Youth
TF1
The Five
The Three
The Walt Disney Company
third ORTF color chain
With the exception of films, soap operas and national news, all the channel’s magazines, documentaries and programs are produced in the regions in heavy production centres. It also broadcasts, outside the national program, regional magazines specific to each of the regional branches, every Sunday from 7:15 p.m. to 8:35 p.m.[15] .
TV3
TV5 World
On November 30, 2007, the President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy was presented with a report on the audiovisual sector outside France which recommended the creation of a holding company which would oversee the television channels TV5 Monde and France 24, and the radio RFI[19] . This involves pooling the resources and coordinating the activities of French audiovisual companies broadcasting abroad[20] . The administrators of TV5 Monde are worried about this Franco-French project for which they were not consulted. Tensions appear on the editorial autonomy of the channel, its identity and its financing. An agreement is finally reached after bitter discussions: the holding company will only manage the French participation in the chain up to 49% [1],[21] . The Audiovisual holding outside France (future France Médias Monde) was created on April 4, 2008[18] .